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The BBC Shakespeare Plays: Making the Televised Canon
Sinopsis :
Between 1978 and 1985 the BBC televised the entire
Shakespeare canon of thirty-seven plays, a remarkable
technical and dramatic accomplishment. Susan Willis, an
American scholar in Shakespeare studies and performance,
observed the making of a number of these television plays.
Here she presents not only a full-scale history and analysis of
the BBC series but an unprecedented eyewitness account of
the productions, from planning and rehearsal to taping and
editing.Willis shows how the technical elements of television
distinguish these productions from stage and film, and she
explains how differences in transmission, tastes, educational
efforts, and critical responses made the productions a different

experience on each side of the Atlantic. She assesses the
diversity of styles used by such directors as Jonathan Miller,
Elijah Moshinsky, and Jane Howell, for after the early filmic
bias toward the productions, directors experimented with unit
or stylized sets, Renaissance space and lighting effects, and
varieties of scenic realism as methods of embodying
Shakespeare's plays for television.The BBC Shakespeare
Plays will give readers an accurate sense of television
production, take Shakespeare buffs behind the scenes, and
serve as an interpretive guide for teachers, thousands of
whom have found the BBC productions to be vital classroom
adjuncts in teaching Shakespeare.